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"\"&lt;p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Round about the time of the women&amp;#8217;s Superpipe finals, many of the industry heads present at the X-Games had discovered something better than hiking up and standing around in the cold watching their teamriders et cetera ride live: chilling on the couch back at the condo watching the whole event on television. It&amp;#8217;s live TV, afterall, so they&amp;#8217;re just being smart. Which musta been why I felt a little bit lonely watching the event in person. Just me, a handful of pro bros, and the poor photographers who can&amp;#8217;t really get away with shooting pictures of their TV screens if they want to get photos into the mags.\\n&lt;p&gt;Anyhow, just thought I&amp;#8217;d mention that. On to the event itself, which was going on simultaneously with prelims for snow-motoX, much to the delight of the spectators\\u2014who got to watch both shows at once. Now, the very first person to come down the halfpipe was the young Elena Hight, who was having an awesome run, that is until she tried to spin 900 at the bottom of the pipe, caught her edge, and did a scorpion the likes of which made everyone who saw it hurt inside. She bit her tongue and incurred a black eye for her troubles, but got up and walked it off on her own two feet. She then went on to pull a sick sick backside 720 the next run.\\n&lt;p&gt;The strange thing about this women&amp;#8217;s finals is that nearly every rider who came down got a higher score than the last\\u2014apparently because they were ordered how they placed in qualifers. It doesn&amp;#8217;t always work like that, but this time, it did. So it seemed to make perfect sense, then, when Gretchen Bleiler\\u2014the last rider of the first run\\u2014came down and won it: Crippler off the first hit, frontside five, and a frontside 720 to wind it up.\\n&lt;p&gt;What &lt;i&gt; was &lt;\\/i&gt;suprising is that Bleiler&amp;#8217;s score from that very run maintained the high mark for the rest of the evening. All through the second run, the women tried to outdo Bleiler. Kelly Clark spun a huge frontside 900, but sketched at the bottom of her run. Hannah Teter did large airs, a frontside 540 and 900\\u2014but didn&amp;#8217;t get inverted. Torah Bright frontside fived and McTwisted (she&amp;#8217;s got the best McTwists in the women&amp;#8217;s biz, for sure), but still not enough.\\n&lt;p&gt;Even French heavyweight Dorian Vidal couldn&amp;#8217;t beat that score, although she came damn close: frontside 720 into Cab 360, a Haakon-flip 720, and big airs. When you break it down, actually, it&amp;#8217;s pretty tough to call which run is gnarlier, Bleiler or Vidal&amp;#8217;s. But Gretchen had the momentum behind her and rode like a champ. Plus, she&amp;#8217;s from Aspen, and her whole family was there watchin\\u2014along with a million screaming fans (okay, maybe not quite that many \\u2026 ).\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Results&lt;\\/b&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;1.      Gretchen Bleiler                325             Snowmass Village, Colo. 89.00\\n&lt;p&gt;2.      Doriane Vidal           337             Rivesaltes, France              88.00\\n&lt;p&gt;3.      Hannah Teter            336             Belmont, Vt.                    86.66\\n&lt;p&gt;4.      Torah Bright            326             Cooma, Australia                84.00\\n&lt;p&gt;5.      Kelly Clark             328             Mount Snow, Vt.         82.66\\n&lt;p&gt;6.      Manuela Pesko           335             Lenzerheider, Switzerland       77.00\\n&lt;p&gt;7.      Lindsey Jacobellis              330             Stratton, Vt.                   75.66\\n&lt;p&gt;8.      Elena Hight             329             South Lake Tahoe, Calif.        73.33\\n&lt;p&gt;9.      Junko Asazuma           323             Nagareyama, Chiba, Japan        72.66\\n&lt;p&gt;10.     Mercedes Nicoll         332             Whistler, BC, Canada            70.33&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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